Organ Transplant: The Heart Race | 3

American Innovations

Wondery

Steven Johnson, History, Kids & Family, Education For Kids, Science

4.6 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In 1967, an unlikely surgeon performs the first human heart transplant – and shocks the world. As others race to replicate his achievement, one surgical team makes a mistake that could spell the end of organ transplants in the United States.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members, you can listen to American innovations, add free on Amazon music, download
0:06.0	the app today.
0:17.0	Richmond, Virginia, 1966.
0:20.6	In a prep room at the Medical College of Virginia Hospital, a team of surgeons prepares to enter
0:25.8	the operating room.
0:27.7	Moving quickly, they scrub their hands with disinfectant soap and slip into their blue
0:31.7	surgical gowns.
0:33.6	Urging them on is a stocky, dark-haired bundle of energy, Dr. David Hume.
0:38.8	He's the hospital's head of surgery and director of its organ transplant program.
0:42.7	Come on, everybody.
0:44.4	We could lose this one at any moment.
0:46.3	Anybody seen the lower?
0:50.5	Right on cue, Dick Lauer enters the prep room.
0:53.7	He's the hospital's lead cardiac surgeon.
0:56.5	And like most good surgeons, he's unflappable, even in this hectic environment.
1:01.1	Dr. Hume, what have we got?
1:03.6	What we've been waiting for?
1:05.3	Donor and recipient.
1:07.1	As soon as you scrub in, we can get started.
1:09.0	Are those their charts?
1:10.8	Can I see?
1:11.8	Of course.
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